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Monitoring Adult Vaccine Use Helps Save Lives
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Abt Global conducts annual online surveys among pregnant women and health care personnel on vaccination use and attitudes toward vaccines.

Developing a Successful Brand: The Summer EBT Story
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Read more about how branding amplified the story of our evaluation work for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Summer Electronic Benefit Program demonstration project.

3 Tips for States Considering a Medicaid and CHIP Quality Rating System
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Abt offers three tips to help states set up a quality rating system for their Medicaid and CHIP managed care programs.

What to Know About Malaria in the U.S.
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Experts dive into what readers should know about the recent malaria outbreak in the U.S., such as symptoms to monitor and current surveillance practices in place for infectious disease crises.

Latrine Businesses Prove Vital to Nutritional Health
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Abt’s Ashfaq Enayetullah explains how commercial engagement furthers sanitation goals of our Feed the Future activity in Bangladesh and improves nutrition.

Integrated Team Care Program
Project
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have high rates of risk factors associated with chronic illness and have much higher rates of chronic disease than non-Indigenous Australians. These higher rates affect overall life expectancy and mortality…

Gympie Nurse Practitioner Program Evaluation
Project
A high number of non-urgent cases that could be addressed by general practice (GP) doctors are presenting unnecessarily at hospital emergency departments (EDs); these are potentially avoidable. Strategies that can save ED health professionals’ time also…

Evaluating the Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs)
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The Institute of Education Sciences’ Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs) provide applied research and trainings to state and local education agencies. Their mission is to support a more evidence-based educational system. To determine whether the…

Communications Strategy for Updating of Pandemic Flu Mitigation Guidelines
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An influenza pandemic is a major public health threat. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) needed a communications strategy to notify communities of the latest scientific findings on nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in the wake of…

Best Practices to Improve International Solid Waste Management
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Many medium and large cities in developing countries lack the capacity to adequately manage solid waste. Limited awareness of best practices for waste management and lack of access to key technical resources are key barriers to improvement.